Image storage system, image storage method and storage medium

Abstract

This invention provides an image storage apparatus, which is capable of quickly and easily downloading images from an electronic film, and which is manufactured at low costs. When an instruction is given to copy the images stored in a CF card to an HDD, the image storage apparatus performs a control to receive the images from the CF card and copy them to the HDD without generating any thumbnail images for managing the images copied into the HDD.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION1. Field of the InventionThis invention relates to an image storage apparatus, an image storage method, and a storage medium for capturing and storing image data taken by a digital camera and the like.2. Description of Related ArtIn recent years, digital cameras have been produced as consumer appliances due to the technical progress of semiconductors, and ordinary people have been using them. The digital cameras are different from ordinary cameras in that the digital cameras can take a great number of pictures, a user can immediately regenerate and confirm the pictures, and the user can erase the failed picture and take a picture again. This enables the user to take pictures without worrying about failures.In the conventional digital cameras, a flash memory in the digital camera is used for recording the captured data. When a memory capacity of the flash memory is full, the user downloads the data of the flash memory into a general purpose computer or spec...

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Benefits of technology

A first object of the present invention is to provide an image storage apparatus, an image storage method and a storage medium, which are capable of quickly and easily downloading images from a storage medium as an electronic film, and which are constructed at low costs.

In one preferred mode of the present invention, the program further comprises: a designating module for designating the thumbnail images of the predetermined size displayed on the display means; and a storage control module for executing a control in such a manner as to store, in storage means, the images received from the storage medium for electronic film and the thumbnail images of the predetermined size; wherein the storage control module receives images corresponding to the thumbnail images designated by the designating module from the storage medium for electronic film through the image receiving module, and stores, in the storage means, the received images and the thumbnail images of the predetermined size corresponding to the received images. This makes it possible to easily select desired images from the images stored in the storage medium, and eliminates the necessity of generating thumbnail images corresponding to the captured images. Consequently, the desired images can be captured quickly and easily.

Problems solved by technology

This requires a lot of time for downloading the images recorded in the CF card.

To address this problem, there has been developed an image storage apparatus that replaces the PC, which takes a lot of time to activate.

Therefore, it takes much time to generate the thumbnail images, and it is difficult to complete the whole process within a short time even in the case where the image data in the electronic film are downloaded from the electronic film, which are then used as new electronic film in the digital camera.

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